MHRD To Implement 10% Quota Law College Seats Set To Increase

“Adequate
additional seats will be created in these colleges and universities to
implement the quota for EWS. The UGC and AICTE will be provided the operational
mandate within a week to implement the quota,” Union HRD Minister Prakash
Javadekar said.

The quota for the economically weak, which allows them 10% reservation benefit, will be implemented in all educational institutions from 2019. “10% EWS quota will be implemented in the AY 2019-20 itself, without impacting the existing quotas for SCs,STs & OBCs and general seats,” said Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today in a meeting with the UGC and the AICTE. “Adequate additional seats will be created in these colleges and universities to implement the quota for EWS. The UGC and AICTE will be provided the operational mandate within a week to implement the quota,” he added.

“The
modalities are being worked out and within a week’s time we will have the exact
number of seats that will be added. The operation manuals about how to
implement the quota will be issued soon. The colleges and universities will
also be asked to mention the quota in their prospectus as well and make
infrastructural arrangements accordingly,” Mr Javadekar said.

The decision comes after President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday cleared the landmark bill passed by parliament which will provide 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and college seats for people outside high income brackets.

Upon its
implementation, in 40,000 colleges and 900 Universities, 10 per cent of
college seats will now be reserved for students belonging to families that earn
less than Rs. 8 lakh
a year and have not more than five acres of land. The 10 per cent quota is in
addition to the 22.5 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes and 27 per cent reservation for castes identified as the Other Backward
Classes (OBC).

Saying it to be “unwanted”, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Union Finance Ministry, Kaushik Basu on Monday said,” by most calculations, somewhere between 96-99 per cent of Indian households fall into that category.”

Foundation Stone Laid For Central University Of Himachal Pradesh

The Union Minister said the Centre has sanctioned several national institutions in the state – IIIT sanctioned for Una, IIT for Mandi, Cluster University sanctioned for Mandi district. In addition to these, several Central schools have also been sanctioned.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar and Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday jointly laid the foundation stone of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh at Dehra in Kangra district. Mr Javadekar said the university would open new vistas of development in the area, besides providing quality higher education.

He said the Central government would provide
all possible help to ensure that the university campus is completed soon.

The Union Minister said the Centre has sanctioned several national institutions in the state – IIIT sanctioned for Una, IIT for Mandi, Cluster University sanctioned for Mandi district. In addition to these, several Central schools have also been sanctioned.

He said the Union
government was committed to provide digital boards in a phased manner in about
nine lakh schools across the country.

Speaking on the
occasion, the Chief Minister said the Central University of Himachal Pradesh
would have two campuses — Dehra and Dharamsala, both in Kangra district.

He said the first campus, to be spread over 750 hectares, would be at Jadrangal near Dharamsala. The second campus would be established at Dehra in an area of 287 hectares.

Mr Thakur said
about Rs. 1,300 crore would be spent on the construction of both
these campuses that would be completed in three years.

He said the state was committed to provide quality education. For this, Rs.7,044 crore was being spent on the education sector during the current financial year and a provision of Rs. 7,600 crore has been made for the next fiscal.

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﻿Law Teachers Seek Permission To Practice In Courts

Once the law teachers were permitted to take up the cases, it would be on a pro-bono basis and if a fee was charged, it would be shared between the university concerned and the law teacher in the ratio of 60:40, the release said.

The executive committee of a consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has decided to seek permission from the Bar Council of India to allow full-time faculty to practice law in courts. The decision, among others, was taken by the committee at a meeting here Wednesday, a press release from the Nalsar University of Law here said Thursday.

(NLUs) has decided to seek permission from the Bar Council of India to allow full-time faculty to practice law in courts. The decision, among others, was taken by the committee at a meeting here Wednesday, a press release from the Nalsar University of Law here said Thursday.

Also, the committee resolved that the issue would be taken up with the Bar Council of India seeking an amendment to its Rule 49 which prohibits full-time salaried employees from practicing in courts.

The committee said that not allowing law teachers to practice in the courts of law was ‘harming’ the legal system as law teachers are as important stakeholders in the system as lawyers and judges and can contribute meaningfully to the legal system, the press release said.

Besides, the committee
said that as the country badly needs litigation lawyers and also needs to
bridge the gap between law in books and law in action, it is necessary that the
teachers should themselves go to the court along with the students.

Vice-chancellor of Nalsar varsity and president of the consortium of NLUs professor Faizan Mustafa said the executive committee resolved that in case law teachers are not permitted to practice, a non-practicing allowance of 25 percent at par with medical doctors should be paid, according to the release.

Once the law teachers were permitted to take up the cases, it would be on a pro-bono basis and if a fee was charged, it would be shared between the university concerned and the law teacher in the ratio of 60:40, the release said.

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He said that the government will work towards providing all these classes with facilities for digital boards by 2022, starting from the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence.

The Human Resource
Development Ministry on Wednesday launched Operation Digital Blackboard, under
which nine lakh classrooms in schools and colleges across the country will be
equipped with digital facilities for teaching by 2022.

“Some 60-70 years back there was an ‘Operation Blackboard‘ because that was the need of the hour then. But the country has progressed over the years, and now we need an Operation Digital Blackboard,” Mr Javadekar said during the launch.

Last year, the ministry had formed a committee under Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT Madras to look into the need of digital blackboards in schools/colleges.

Emphasising the need for digital modes of education to improve the quality of education, Mr Javadekar said that the committee assessed a requirement for seven lakh digital blackboards in classes 9-12, and two lakh for classes in higher education institutions.

He said that the government will work towards providing all these classes with facilities for digital boards by 2022, starting from the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence.